West Suffolk live with £19m Cerner EHR
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with its £19 million Cerner electronic patient record deployment called e-Care.
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NPfIT contracts to get further £500m
Hospital IT contracts set up under the National Programme for IT will continue to be funded to the tune of £500 million up to 2020, NHS England has said.
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Surrey and Sussex trust to use PKB with 3,200 IBD patients
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is to offer the patient-controlled electronic record Patients Know Best to more than 3,200 people with inflammatory bowel disease.
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Ireland races to implement health IT
Ireland has created an Individual Health Identifier for all patients and implemented an e-referral system in half of all its hospitals, over the past six months
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Royal Berkshire sticks with Millennium
The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is sticking with Cerner as its core electronic patient record system and has signed a £5 million hosting contract with the company.
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Berks on track: Reading hospital reboots its use of Millennium
The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has committed to retaining Cerner Millennium as its core electronic patient record. Despite a disastrous go-live in June 2012, the trust now aims to be paperless within four years. Rebecca McBeth reports.
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Cerner exec moves to NHS England
NHS England has appointed Cerner’s managing director for population health as the new national director for commissioning operations and information.
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FinIT: the end of NPfIT in London and the South
Cerner Millennium trusts had to be out of the BT data centre by the end of last month. With the exit of the final trust just two weeks late, Rebecca McBeth reports on the end of the National Programme for IT in two of its five regions.
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NPfIT transitions ‘high risk’
Four NHS hospital trusts that need to replace their nationally procured electronic patient record systems by the end of the month are deemed “high risk” by the board overseeing the programme.
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CQC: concern at Croydon’s two IT systems
The Care Quality Commission has raised concerns about Croydon Health Services NHS Trust using two different IT systems for patient care, in the latest of a series of reports about trusts that ‘require improvement.’
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